Re: Trouble with a string

[kennethk]

Assuming your post's whitespace has not been mangled (you should wrap output in <code> tags to avoid that), your issue is that the results from the external call ends with a newline character. This is easily fixed with chomp:

$OLDVMDIR = "/sunstorage_kvm_images/kvm_images/images";  #Current Dire
+ctory
$NEWVMDIR = "/sunstorage_kvm_images/kvm_images/images_new";  #Target (
+New) Directory
$VMSFX = "\-vda\.img";  #File suffix for each file

<snip>

        @VMSHUT = `cat /tmp/virshlist_shutdown`;
        chomp(@VMSHUT);
          foreach $VMSHUT (@VMSHUT)
            {
              $VMFILE = $OLDVMDIR . $VMSHUT . $VMSFX;
              print "$VMFILE $NEWVMDIR \n";
            }